UPSC GK Questions 2026

Helium is a noble gas whose atoms exist singly, so it is a monatomic gas, not a diatomic one. Helium has a completely filled first shell (1s²), so its atoms have no tendency to share electrons or bond with each other.

The tribunal allowed the counter-claims of the National Highways Authority of India to this extent as principal.

This is the length of the Chittorgarh-Udaipur stretch of NH-76 in Rajasthan that was to be widened to six lanes under the concession agreement with Uchit Expressway Private Limited.

The tribunal that examined the claims and counter-claims flowing from the concession agreement for the Chittorgarh-Udaipur six-laning project was constituted under SAROD and had three members.

The dispute arose from the six-laning of the Chittorgarh-Udaipur section of this highway in Rajasthan, a stretch of 93.5 km.

While speaking on the energy sector and on sustainable economic development, Hardeep Singh Puri cited this scheme, which was launched on 1 October, and connected it with the Prime Minister's vision of turning waste into wealth and of the farmer moving from food-giver to energy-giver.

Samudra Manthan is the popular name of this scheme, and the National Offshore Exploration Scheme is its formal description.

The college, known by the short form SRCC, organised the two-day national conference to mark its centenary year, and the sessions were held at the Stein Auditorium of the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.

The Union Government has approved the Samudra Manthan Scheme, which is also known as the National Offshore Exploration Scheme, with this outlay.

The Chairman said the podcast was launched to carry the Prime Minister's vision of Viksit Bharat@2047 and 'Vocal for Local' to younger listeners, through conversations about Khadi's heritage, innovation, modern fashion and youth entrepreneurship.

The break-up is worth remembering because questions are often set on it: 36 are Khadi units, 33 are units linked to the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme, and the remaining 08 belong to village industries and other schemes.

He inaugurated the festival at the Khadi and Village Industries Commission's Central Office in Vile Parle, Mumbai, with the stated aim of carrying the Prime Minister's call of 'Har Ghar Swadeshi, Ghar-Ghar Swadeshi' and 'Vocal for Local' to younger buyers.

Gypsum was identified there and also in the Tiruchirappalli Badlands, a semi-arid geological and palaeoclimatic terrain in Tamil Nadu, and both places therefore qualify as Martian analogue sites for the study of past water activity.

The laser Raman spectrometer used for the work is supported under the DST-FIST programme at that department, and the research team was led by Dr. Sajin Kumar K. S., who is the Project Coordinator of DST-FIST.

At Neyveli the mineral forms from marcasite in the lignite substratum through sulphide oxidation, and it records short-lived wet, acidic and oxidising conditions of the kind believed to have produced sulphates on Mars.

The power section of the dashboard shows total installed capacity rising 12.1 per cent to 5,32,739.7 MW, while capacity from renewable energy sources grew much faster, by 29.5 per cent, to reach 2,23,273 MW.

The road transport and highways section of the dashboard records that much length of national highway projects awarded in the first six months of the financial year, which is a growth of 62.9 per cent over the same period a year earlier.

PAIMANA, which expands to Project Assessment, Infrastructure Monitoring and Analytics for Nation-building, is that ministry's dashboard for tracking the performance of infrastructure sub-sectors through a standard set of indicators, and it is updated every quarter.

The scheme's purpose is contained in its name: it upgrades government Industrial Training Institutes so that they become modern, industry-aligned and future-ready skilling institutions, and it works through Strategic Investment Plans drawn up jointly by state governments, industry partners and the institutes themselves.

The Kataka cluster in Odisha was approved with a Strategic Investment Plan in partnership with the foundation, and the plan is meant to strengthen infrastructure, bring in new-age training programmes and deepen industry linkages so that training matches the skill needs of the region.